Inner city airports are closing? The following I pulled up seem to be doing well:

Chicago's Midway airport opened in 1923

New York's La Guardia opened in 1939

New York's Newark Liberty Intl airport opened in 1928 (added more gates in 1988)

Houston's Hobby airport opened in 1937

LA's John Wayne - Orange County airport originally opened in 1923 (expanded in 1990)

Washington DC Natl. Airport (Ronald Regan) opened in 1941

Boston's Logan Intl. Airport opened in 1923

Chicago's Meigs Field was ordered shut down by the mayor in 2003 and is currently embattled to be reopened as a park and airport. FAA is currently investigating the mayor for illegally closing the airport.

These are the quick one's I was able to find online. Given more time, I think I could pull up several dozen more, in fact, I'd venture to guess that the opposite is true in reference to your claim that most inner city airports are closing.

Using the Dallas' home tax property site, I find the predominant styled homes closest to the airport to be Ranch style which were built mainly in the 50's and 60's.  Boeing's 707 jet was rolled out in 1954.

Would the tax money received by added airport services (car rental, hotel, extra gates), plus the added moneys from possible expanded convention center business be greater than residential property taxes that could be created if the place was bulldozed?

A general rule of thumb would be if you plan on buying a house next to an airport/railroad/racetrack/etc., don't complain about the noise...Buyer beware. You?ll find little sympathy from those of us who knew better.

As a fiscal conservative, I find protectionist laws such as the Wright to be appalling. What I'm most upset about are the other cities coming in telling us to shut the place down because they may lose business such as Grapevine with it's shiny new convention center, Ft. Worth with its heavily subsidized and non-profitable airline, and the growing mid-cities (Southlake), etc.

Restricting access to Love has only hurt Dallas and helped swell the coffers of every other city around us. It's time to repeal the Wright.

This is too large of a metroplex to be served by only one airport, and I shudder to think of the prices of flights out of D/FW it Love Field closes.

Jason Roberts